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(The Field Line).
Mary Catherine Field, wife of Harvey Smith MeLeod, was a direct descendant of Zachariah Field, the emigrant ancestor from England. The English history of the Field family is one of noble achievement and un- usual prominence. The name traces as far back as the Norman conquest. It was orig- inally written De la Feld, or De la Felde, but about the middle of the fourteenth century was changed to Field, or in some cases Feild. In America and the United States the name is an eminent one, and includes Cyrus Field, the father of the Atlantic cable. David Dudley Field, the noted lawyer; Marshall Field, the merchant prince of Chicago; and many others of equal note. The first of record in the line of Zachariah Field was Roger Del Field of Sorverly, England, born about 1240. Zacha- riah Field, ten generations later, was born in East Ardsley, Yorkshire, England, in 1596. He was the son of John Field of Cockernhoe,
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England, and grandson of John Field, the 8, - Mary Goldsmith, born November astronomer.
(I) Zachariah Field came to New England from Bristol, England, arrived in Boston, Massachusetts, 1629, and settled in Dorches- ter. In 1659 he removed to Northampton, where he engaged in mercantile business and had a large trade with the Indians. He was one of the twenty-five persons who were the first to settle in Hatfield, and there passed the remainder of his days. He married, about 1641, Mary -+, who bore him five chil- dren.
(II) Sergeant Samuel, son of Zachariah Field, was born in Hartford, Connecticut, about 1651. He removed to Hatfield, where he was slain by Indians in ambush while at work in his field, June 24, 1697. He was a sergeant in the Turner's Falls fight with the Indians, and an influential citizen and town official of Hatfield. He married Sarah Gil- bert, who bore him eight children.
(III) Captain Zachariah (2), son of Ser- geant Samuel Field, was born in Hatfield, Massachusetts. He removed to Deerfield in 1710, and in 1717 to Northfield, Massachu- setts, where he died. He was captain of militia, selectman many years, and a very wealthy and influential man. He married Sarah Mattoon, who prior to her marriage was carried away captive by the Indians and held a prisoner in Canada for five years. She bore him ten children.
(IV) Dr. Ebenezer, son of Captain Zacha- riah (2) Field, was born in Deerfield, Massa- chusetts, died in Northfield. He was a phy- sician noted in his profession, and noted in the town records as "Doctor Field." He had great faith in the oil and gall of the rattle- snake, and captured large numbers to obtain his favorite remedies for rheumatism and fevers. The pole and hook with which he cap- tured the snakes is now in the possession of the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association of Deerfield. He married Abigail Holton, who bore him six children.
(V) William, son of Dr. Ebenezer Field, was a farmer of Northfield, Massachusetts. He married Sarah Petty, who bore him five children.
(VI) William (2), son of William (I) Field, was born in Northfield, Massachusetts, where he followed the trade of a painter. He married Mary Woodward, who bore him seven children.
(VII) Franklin, son of William (2) Field, was born in Northfield, Massachusetts, Au- gust II, 1824. He removed to Troy, New York, where he died May 8, 1881. He mar- ried in Montgomery, New York, November
13, 1820. Children: Thomas Goldsmith, Mary Catherine and Franklin.
(VIII) Mary Catherine, daughter of Franklin and Mary (Goldsmith) Field, was born February 21, 1852, died in Troy, New York, April 26, 1891. She married, January 18, 1872, Harvey Smith McLeod. (See Mc- Leod III.)
(The Dickinson Line).
Experience Oaks Dickinson, wife of Hubert McLeod, was of English descent.
(I) Nathaniel Dickinson and his wife Anna Tull arrived in Boston, Massachusetts, from England, in 1630, first settled in Watertown, and in 1637 removed to Wetherfield, Connecti- cut. He was town clerk in 1645, and repre- sentative 1646-56, deacon of the church, and a man of great influence. Owing to dissen- sion in the Wethersfield church he removed to Hadley, Massachusetts, in 1659. He was the first recorder of that town and deacon of the Hadley church. Anna (Tull) Dickinson died in Hatfield. Nathaniel died there June 16, 1676. They had eleven children. The first two may have been born in England; two were born in Watertown, Massachusetts, and seven in Wethersfield, Connecticut.
(II) Joseph, second child of Nathaniel Dickinson, was made freeman in Wethersfield, 1657, removed with his father to Hadley, and was settled in Northampton, Massachusetts, 1664-74. In 1675 he removed to Northfield, Massachusetts. He was a member of the mili- tary company of Northfield, commanded by Captain Beers, and was killed by the Indians September 4, 1675. (King Philip's war.) He married, 1664, Phoebe Bray.
(III) Nathaniel (2), son of Joseph Dickin- son, was born in Northampton, Massachusetts, May 20, 1670, died at Hatfield, Massachusetts, in 1745. He married Hannah White.
(IV) Joel, eighth child of Nathaniel Dickin- son (2), was born March 23, 1716. He lived in Wheatley, Massachusetts, and later moved to Conway, Massachusetts. He was a deacon of the church. He married, 1738, Rachel Lamb.
(IV) Obadiah, third child of Nathaniel Dickinson (2), was born July 28, 1784, died June 24, 1788, married (first) Mary Belding, May 26, 1726.
(V) Elias, first son of Joel Dickinson, was born in Conway, Massachusetts, 1739, and died in Phelps, New York, 1806. He married Chloe Wait, born in Hatfield, Massachusetts, February 23, 1738, died in Phelps, 1806.
(V) Elijah, first child of Obadiah Dickin- son, was born July 31, 1727. He married (first), 1756, Sybil Billington, born 1731.
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(VI) Augustus, third child of Elias Dickin- son, was born in Conway, Massachusetts, Sep- tember 7, 1765, died in Phelps, New York, April 11, 1808. He married a kinswoman, Submit Dickinson, born in Hatfield, Massa- chusetts, March 18, 1766, died in Phelps, New York, March, 1813, sixth child of Elijah and Sybil Billington Dickinson.
(VII) Experience Oaks, daughter of Au- gustus and Submit (Dickinson) Dickinson, was born in Phelps, New York, March 27, 1807, died there June 8, 1880. She married, March 25, 1830, Hubert, third son of Mur- dock and Catherine Jane (Anderson) Mc- Leod. (See McLeod II.)
WADE The family name of Wade is de- rived from the Dutch, "weide," signifying a pasture or meadow. The Wade Arms : Shield : Azure, a saltire ar- gent between three escallops, or, Crest: An arm embowed in armor, proper, holding a sword. Motto: Pro fide et patria-For faith and country.
One of the oldest of the Anglo-Saxon fam- ilies is the Wade. Before the Norman con- queror was victorious at Hastings, Wades oc- cupied positions of honor and trust in the primitive polity of the Saxon heptarchy. Chau- cer alludes to the name and record shows the deeds and valorous achievements of the early ones bearing the name. Before the James- town settlement was thought of, and ages be- fore the Pilgrim Fathers sailed for this coun- try, Amigel Wade, secretary of the privy coun- cil of King Henry VIII. of England, had ex- plored the coast of Newfoundland, and as his monument proudly boasts, "he was the first Englishman to land on the shores of the New World." One of Cromwell's most trusted men was Major-General Wade; his son, Col- onel Wade, followed the ill-fated Monmouth to the madness of Sedgmoor. A monument far more enduring than bronze exists to-day in the roads of the Scotch Highlands to the wisdom and generous policy of Field Marshal General George Wade, who was a man of lofty character.
(I) Though the little "Mayflower" bore none of the name, early in the day of settle- ment of the Massachusetts colony, 1632, came Jonathan and Nicholas Wade, solid yeomen of Norfolk, England, and they settled in the vi- cinity of the site of Boston. Jonathan Wade had a son named Nathaniel. The father, who was the progenitor of the family in America, died in 1683.
(II) Nathaniel, second son of Jonathan Wade, was a major. He married Mercy, daughter of Governor Simon Bradstreet, of
Massachusetts colony, October 31, 1672. They had a son named Samuel.
(III) Samuel, son of Major Nathaniel and Mercy (Bradstreet) Wade, was born March 5, 1681. He married, October 17, 1706, Lydia Newhall. They had a son named Samuel.
(IV) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (I) and Lydia (Newhall) Wade, was born April 21, 1715. He married, 1741, Martha, daughter of James and Dorothy (Wigglesworth) Up- ham. They had a son named James.
(V) James, son of Samuel (2) and Martha (Upham) Wade, was born at Medford, Mas- sachusetts, July 8, 1750. He married his cou- sin, Mary, daughter of the Rev. Edward Up- ham, in West Springfield, Massachusetts, Jan- uary 15, 1781. He died in Andover, Ashtabula county, Ohio, May 9, 1826. His wife, Mary, was born in Newport, Rhode Is- land, June 16, 1762, died in Andover, Massachusetts, April 10, 1826. James Wade's grandmother, Dorothy Wigglesworth, was the daughter of Rev. Michael Wigglesworth, who was born in Yorkshire, England, October 28, 1631. He was brought to this country in 1638; graduated from Harvard College in 1651; soon after became a professor there, and was ordained to the ministry in 1656. He died June 10, 1705. Dorothy Wigglesworth was his second daughter, and was born Feb- ruary 22, 1687. She married James Upham, father of Rev. Edward Upham, who was born March 26, 1710; married Sarah Leonard, April 10, 1740. He graduated from Harvard College in 1734; became a Baptist minister, and settled at Newport, Rhode Island, where he preached for many years. He was one of the first trustees of Brown University, and was offered the first presidency ; but declined. He preached, leaning upon his staff, until ninety years of age. Children: Martha, born August 24, 1782; Nancy, born July 2, 1784, died February 7, 1786; Nancy, born February 25, 1786; Mary, born September 2, 1787; James, born June 5, 1789, see forward; Charles, born April 22, 1791, died April 17, 1798; Samuel Sidney, born May 11, 1793, died November 27, 1847; Theodore Leonard, born March 13, 1797, died January 13, 1863; Charles H., born December 8, 1798, died June 27, 1885; Benjamin Franklin, born October 27, 1800, died March 2, 1878; Edward, born November 22, 1802, died August, 1866.
(VI) Dr. James (2), son of James (1) and Mary (Upliam) Wade, was born in Frieding- hills, Hampton county, Massachusetts, June 5, 1789. He resided and followed his profes- sion in Watervliet, Albany county, and died there February, 1868. He married, in Water- vliet, September 16, 1813, Sally, daughter of
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Ezekiel and Sally Mulford. She was born in Pittstown, Rensselaer county, New York, June 12, 1794, died in Watervliet, July 28, 1834. Children : I. Ezekiel Mulford, born November 14, 1814; married (first) June 26, 1838, Sarah Ann Saunders; (second) February 23, 1853, Elizabeth Hughes, no children. 2. Mary Wood, born January 15, 1819, died February 16, 1819. 3. James, born January 28, 1824; married, July 14, 1852, Margaret Gillis Uhl. 4. Edward, born October 26, 1829, see for- ward. 5. Sally, born February 16, 1837.
(VII) Edward, son of Dr. James (2) and Sally (Mulford) Wade, was born in Water- vliet, New York, in the residence on the Troy and Schenectady turnpike, October 26, 1829, died July 10, 1890. He received his educa- tion at the Exeter Academy; studied law at the Albany Law School of Union University, and in the law office of Dean & Newland. He was one of the compilers of the well-known fifth edition of the Revised Statutes of New York State. Mr. Wade, although rarely ap- pearing in court in person, did an enormous amount of office business. He was most exact in everything he did, methodical to a degree, scrupulously honest and always thoroughly in earnest. Withal, he was a man of kind heart and most generous impulses, doing much good in a quiet, unostentatious manner in the way of charity. In politics he was a strong and consistent Republican. He was a nephew of Hon. Benjamin Wade, who for many years was United States senator from Ohio, and acting vice-president of the United States. Mr. Wade's practise included the charge of a number of estates of importance in Albany and conducted these trusts with a fidelity even greater than he would have exerted in his own interests, for such was the estimate of the bar on his death. Mr. Wade married, October 27, 1863, Ellen Wilson, born Febru- ary 5, 1838, daughter of Dr. Sylvester and Ellen Montgomery (Wilson) Carr. Children : I. Edward Upham, born July 3, 1867, see for- ward. 2. Ellen, born January 30, 1873; grad- uate of the Albany high school, class of 1892; admitted to the State Normal College and graduated in 1895; died of scarlet fever, May 8, 1895. 3. Dudley Bradstreet, born July 7, 1880, see forward.
(VIII) Edward Upham, son of Edward and Ellen Wilson (Carr) Wade, was born in Al- bany, July 3, 1867. He received his educa- tion at the Albany Academy, and following in the footsteps of his father took up the law as his profession. He married, March 3, 1892, Anna Bergen, of Fargo, North Dakota, daugh- ter of Theodore Bergen. Children: Edward Bergen, born December 28, 1892, died March
14, 1895; Dudley Bradstreet, born December 27, 1894, died September, 1897; Edward, born March, 1897; Dudley B., born September, 1899; Richard, born October 30, 1902; Ellen Annan, born November 18, 1905.
(VIII) Dudley Bradstreet, son of Edward and Ellen Wilson (Carr) Wade, was born July 7, 1880, in Albany. He received his ed- ucation in Albany high school and graduated at the Albany Law School; he followed his profession in Albany, where he has a fine clientage. Mr. Wade married, June 27, 1906, Lela Maude Countryman, of Little Falls, New York. They have one son, Dudley Bradstreet Wade Jr., born in Albany, June 17, 1907.
Benjamin Wilson, the great-grandfather of Edward Upham and Dudley Bradstreet Wade, was born in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, No- vember 28, 1763. He married Sarah Mont- gomery Henderson, born at Castle Montgom- ery, Ireland, died in Albany, about 1844. He died September, 1849, of cholera. Benjamin, and his brother, Joseph, were coopers by trade, and for many years were engaged in the wholesale grocery business. James, son of Jo- seph Wilson, established the first grocery busi- ness of any importance in Albany, and was styled the father of merchants in that city. He had a daughter, Ellen Montgomery, born in 1803, married, May 29, 1831, her cousin, Dr. Sylvester Carr. She died November 29, 1838. Children : 1. James Wilson, born May 13, 1832; resided in Detroit, Michigan, in 1909; married (second) Harriet K. Cobb. 2. Benjamin, born 1834; died in San Francisco, 1863. 3. Ellen, born February 5, 1838; mar- ried, October 27, 1863, Edward Wade, (see Wade VII).
The following is a verbatim copy of the data furnished by Mrs. Edward Wade:
"Simon Bradstreet, once Governor of Massachu- setts, married Ann Dudley, a daughter of Governor Thomas Dudley. Mercy Bradstreet, a daughter of Governor Simon Bradstreet and Ann Dudley Brad- street, his wife, married Nathaniel Wade, herein- before mentioned, October 31, 1672, and died Oc- tober 5, 1715. Ann Dudley, the wife of said Gov- ernor Simon Bradstreet, and mother of the said Mercy Bradstreet Wade, was the author of the Anne Bradstreet poems.
"Thomas Dudley was born in Northampton, Eng- land, in 1576. In 1630, he was sent to Massachu- setts as deputy governor; was chosen governor in 1634-40 and 1645; died in Roxbury; was a man of the sternest Puritan integrity. He had a son, Joseph, who was successively chief justice of Mas- sachusetts and New York, governor of the Isle of Wight, and governor of Massachusetts from 1702 to 1715. Joseph Dudley's son, Paul, was chief jus- tice of Massachusetts.
"Anne Dudley, daughter of Governor Thomas Dudley, and the sister of Governor Joseph Dudley, was born in 1612. Her father was attached to the service of the Earl of Lincoln, and she spent much
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of her girlhood in his castle of Sempsingham. When sixteen years old, in 1628, she married Simon Brad- street. In 1638, they were of the wealthy and well- born party who undertook the colonization of Mas- sachusetts. She died September 16, 1672.
"Mercy Bradstreet, daughter of Anne, and Major Nathaniel Wade were married October 31, 1672. To these, with other children, was born Bradstreet Wade, in 1681, in Medford, Mass.
"Bradstreet Wade became the husband of Lydia Newhall, October 17, 1706, and died December 9, 1738. His son, Samuel, was born April 21, 1715; married Martha Upham, daughter of James Upham and Dorothy Wigglesworth, December 2, 1741. These were the parents of James Wade, father of Dr. James Wade of Albany (or Watervliet) and Benjamin F., Edward, Theodore, Charles, and others."
LEONARD The family name of Leonard when originally adopted sig- nified that those who were given that cognomen had the character or dis- position of a lion, that is, were lion-hearted, decidedly courageous, whole-souled, fearing nothing. Its exact derivation is from "leon," a lion, and the Teutonic affixture, "ard," indi- cating "of the nature" or disposition. The Leonard Arms-Shield : Or, on a fesse gules, three fleur-de-lys of the first. Crest : A lion's head erased, gules.
(I) The progenitor of this family in Amer- ica was Nathaniel Leonard, whose two young- er brothers, James and Henry Leonard, set- tled in Taunton, Massachusetts. Nathaniel came first to the district called Avalon, of which he became governor, the capital of which was Annapolis in Nova Scotia. He was skilled as an iron-master in Wales, and came seeking iron in this country. The cli- mate being cold, part of the colony migrated to Maryland, where there is still a place called Leonardstown, in St. Mary's county. James and Henry Leonard seem to have stopped off at Taunton, Massachusetts, and Nathaniel's son, John Leonard, probably hear- ing about the settlers going to Springfield, went with that party in 1639.
It is not known who was the father of Na- thaniel, James and Henry; but their father had a sister, Dorothy Leonard, who married George Calvert. They had a son, Leonard Calvert, whose son, George Calvert, was a Roman Catholic, and a close friend of James II., and was created Lord Baltimore by that king. His son, Leonard, was made the first governor of Maryland, Lord Baltimore being the proprietor of the country. George Cal- vert made his fortune by marrying Dorothy Leonard, whose family were prominent iron- masters in Pontypool, Wales, and afterwards in Baltimore, Ireland, which was where Lord Baltimore selected the name of his title, and
on coming to America they established a long line of iron-masters of the name. Dorothy Leonard and George Calvert were married at Hurstmanceaux Castle, which at that time was in possession of a relative of Dorothy, who obtained it through his Leonard ancestry, it being well known that Hurstmanceaux was the old home of the Leonards.
On November 19, 1643, a grant was made at a town meeting to John Winthrop, Jr., for about three thousand acres of land at Brain- tree, Massachusetts, "for the encouragement of an iron-work to be set up about Monotcot river," styled the "Company of Undertakers for the Iron-Works," which inaugurated what is said to be the earliest of the kind in the new country ; but an honor disputed by Lynn, Massachusetts. They were allowed to export any surplus to any part of the world except to enemies. Among the first expert workers was Henry Leonard, who assisted in making the first castings in America. Mr. Winthrop received permission to make a plantation and lay out a site for iron-works at Pequot (New London, Conn.), to which place he removed in 1646, and the men imported for the works were artificers of high skill. In 1646 the gen- eral court permitted some of the country's guns to be melted over at the foundry.
The next attempt to manufacture iron in the colony was made at Raynham, in 1652, and here the Leonards added the operations of the bloomery and the forge hammer. From definite information furnished in 1793 by the Rev. Dr. Fobes, considerable light is thrown on the family at this early period. He affirms that the first adventurers from Eng- land to this country who were skilled in forge iron manufacture were James and Henry Leonard. They came to Raynham for this purpose in 1652, only two years after the first settlers located at this spot, and they were the ones who built here the first forge in America. James lived and died in that town. He brought with him from Pontypool, Monmouthshire, his son, Thomas, who worked at the bloomery and assisted his father in the forge when grown up.
Incidents in the lives of these ancestors in the Leonard family, without the addition of any embellishment whatsoever, read as enter- tainingly as any portion of colonial history dealing with the early struggles to effect a residence in the wilds and be protected from man and beast. This forge where the Leon- ards were engaged was situated on the "great road," and having been repaired from genera- tion to generation, was still in use in 1800 and later. Back in 1800 there stood near the dam there three elms and an oak with a diameter
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then of three feet, which, taken with the venerable buildings, presented to the eye a scene of picturesque antiquity even in 1800. At a distance of one mile and a quarter from the forge is a place called the Fowling Pond, on the northerly side of which stood King Philip's house, he of so much entertaining tradition among the savages. It was specifi- cally styled "Philip's hunting house," because in the season most favorable to hunting he resided there; but he spent the winter chiefly at Mount Hope, probably for the benefit of the fishing.
King Philip and the Leonards lived long in good, neighborly spirit, and frequently traded with each other ; and such was Philip's friendship, that so soon as the war broke out he gave strict orders to all his Indians never to hurt the Leonards, burn their dwellings or injure their stock in any manner. Through- out the war, however, the two houses near the forge were constantly garrisoned. One of them was built by James Leonard long be- fore King Philip's war; it was of the Gothic form, and in 1800 was occupied by the sixth generation of that family. In the cellar under this house there was a gruesome curiosity, for here during a considerable time was deposited the head of King Philip, for it seems that even Philip himself shared the fate of kings; he was decollated, and his head carried about and shown as a warning by one Alderman, the In- dian who shot him. There was in this old house an ancient case of drawers upon which the deep scars and mangled impressions of Indian hatchets were to be seen; but mem- ory alone contains the deeper impressions which were made upon the affrighted women of the Leonard household who braved these excitements. Under the doorsteps of the same building are the bones of two unfortu- nate young women, who in their flight hither were shot down by the Indians, and it is re- lated that their blood was seen to run quite across the highway. More fortunate was the flight of Uriah Leonard who, as he was riding from Taunton to the forge, was discovered and fired upon by the savages. He instantly plucked off his hat, swung it around, which startled his horse, and in full career he reached the forge dam without a wound; but several bullets were shot through the hat in his hand, and also through the neck of the horse near the mane, from which the blood gushed on both sides and ran down on Leonard's legs.
Fowling Pond, above mentioned, near which the forge was erected, was remarkably prolific a century ago in material, having fur- nished an uninterrupted supply of good ore for that and other works for over four score
years constantly. It is said that the family attachment to the iron manufacture is so well known as to render it a common observation that "where you can find iron-works, there you will find a Leonard." Henry, the brother of James, went from Taunton or Raynham to New Jersey, and was one of the first who started iron-works in that state. He was the progenitor of a numerous and respectable pos- terity in that part of the United States. George Leonard was one of the early set- tlers, about 1696, of Norton, which with Raynham originally formed a part of Taun- ton, Massachusetts, and there he erected iron- works. He was attracted thither by the dis- covery of ore and by reason of the abundant water-power at command from the Taunton river. His descendants continued the busi- ness for more than a century. In 1674 Na- thaniel and Thomas Leonard entered into a contract with John Ruck and others of Salem to carry on the iron manufacture at the vil- lage of Rowley, which possessed all the ad- vantages of good, water-power and bog ore. The Indians destroyed one of the iron-works of the Leonards in 1677.
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